Angel Stanislav Wang, winner of the 63rd Jaén Prize International Piano Competition in 2022, presents his Naxos debut recital with a selection of works he performed during the competition. Liszt’s Piano Sonata in B minor is an undisputed masterpiece of the Romantic era, while Shostakovich’s Piano Quintet in G minor is one of the most intense and eloquent chamber works of the 20th century. Spanish music is always present at Jaén and is represented here by a selection from Granados’s Goyescas, and by Laura Vega’s competition commission Poema a un amor eterno – a work of intense emotion, calling upon the pianist to be more of a poet or rhapsodist than a virtuoso.

Aside from being First Prize winner of the 63rd Jaén Prize International Piano Competition in 2022, Angel Stanislav Wang has also been a laureate of the 21st International Piano Competition ‘Composers of Spain’ (2021), the International Piano Competition Val de Travers (2021), and the 2nd International Rachmaninov Piano Competition (2020).